University of Sussex Library Updates

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Heating update

January

26

SEF are experiencing issues with the heating; this is affecting the whole campus at times and you may experience cooler than normal temperatures. Further info

Restricted access to Library Catalogue 1st August 2013

July

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The Library Catalogue will only offer a limited functionality on 1st August due to system work needed for the end of our financial year. Item requests, Interlibrary requests and book purchasing suggestions will be unavailable on this day.  ‘My Account’ features (such as renewing a book) will also be unavailable. You can renew books over […]

Snow day opening – The Library and Special Collections are both currently open

March

12

We are really pleased to say that enough of our amazing staff have managed to get in to enable us to stay open until 4pm (weather permitting). Please see our twitter and Facebook pages for regular updates.

The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991

July

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The Library has bought the Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991. This features the complete 62-year run of The Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991. The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929 under its Director-General Lord Reith. It was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times. Developed as […]

State Papers Online Parts III and IV

July

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The University has purchased State Papers parts III and IV, to add to the Library’s previous purchase of parts I and II.  The State Papers provides a digital edition of the Domestic, Foreign, Borders, Scotland, and Ireland State Papers of Britain with the Registers of the Privy Council and other State Papers now housed in […]

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Online

July

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The University has bought Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Online. This resource provides access to many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images.  There are 17 thematic areas: Slavery in Early Americas, African Coast, Middle Passage, Slavery and Agriculture, Urban and Domestic Slavery, Slave Testimony, Spiritualism and Religion in Slave communities, Resistance […]

Making of the Modern World

July

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The University has purchased the Making of the Modern World. This resource provides access to the theories, practices, and consequences of economic and business activity in the West, from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. Contains collections from the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library […]

Picture Post Archive online

June

27

The Library has bought the Picture Post Archive Online.  This consists of the complete, fully text searchable facsimile archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain between 1938-1957 that defined the style of photojournalism in the 20th century. Picture Post was read by an estimated 80% of the British population at its […]

African Newspapers 1800-1922

June

27

The Library has purchased African Newspapers 1800-1922 online. This resource provides access to more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring English- and foreign-language titles from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Includes publications such as the […]

New York Times Archive online now available

June

27

The Library has bought the archive of the New York Times Online.  This gives access between 1851 and 2007 to one of the most important international newspapers. To access the archive, please click here